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Saturday, October 8, 1988 · Capital Centre

Sabres 2 at Capitals 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 86OVR Dave Christian Capitals First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG R 76OVR John Tucker Sabres Second Star 2G · 4 SOG L 88OVR Bengt-Ake Gustafsson Capitals Third Star 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:51 Dave Christian (2) Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (2) BUF 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 7:14 John Tucker (1) Calle Johansson (2) BUF 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 17:59 Dale Hunter (1) PPG Mike Gartner (1), Scott Stevens (1) BUF 1 – 2 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 2:37 Geoff Courtnall (2) Dave Christian (2), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (3) BUF 1 – 3 WSH
  2. 6:52 Bobby Gould (1) SHG Stephen Leach (1), Rod Langway (1) BUF 1 – 4 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 1:58 Kevin Hatcher (1) Mike Ridley (2) BUF 1 – 5 WSH
  2. 4:59 John Tucker (2) Jan Ludvig (1), Scott Arniel (1) BUF 2 – 5 WSH
  3. 13:09 Dave Christian (3) PPG Larry Murphy (1), Dale Hunter (2) BUF 2 – 6 WSH

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
John Tucker R 2 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.80
Calle Johansson D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Scott Arniel L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Jan Ludvig R 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Mike Ramsey D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Christian Ruuttu C 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Mike Foligno R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Donnelly L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Lindy Ruff L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jeff Parker R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Adam Creighton C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Uwe Krupp D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Benoit Hogue L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Ray Sheppard R 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Pierre Turgeon C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Phil Housley D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Mark Ferner D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Kevin Maguire R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.43
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tom Barrasso L 27 21 6 .778 53:09 -2.40
Daren Puppa — 3 3 0 1.000 6:51 0.30

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dave Christian R 2 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.73
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Dale Hunter C 1 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.38
Geoff Courtnall L 1 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.35
Rod Langway D 0 1 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.15
Bobby Gould R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Stephen Leach R 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Kevin Hatcher D 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.83
Mike Ridley C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Larry Murphy D 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Mike Gartner R 0 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Scott Stevens D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Kelly Miller L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Neil Sheehy D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.08
Mike Millar R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Yvon Corriveau L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Grant Ledyard D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pete Peeters W 22 20 2 .909 60:00 0.50